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3 unusual facts about A Season in Hell


A Season in Hell

According to biographer, Graham Robb, this began "as an attempt to explain why some of his Rimbaud's poems are so hard to understand, especially when sober".

Rimbaud began writing the poem in April 1873 during a visit to his family's farm in Roche, near Charleville on the French-Belgian border.

Jean-Louis Forain

He was one of only "seven known recipients" to receive a first edition of A Season in Hell directly from Rimbaud.


Robert Smallwood

The book was optioned for film in November, 2013, by Safier Entertainment under the working title, A Season in Hell borrowed from the extended poem of the same name by French writer Arthur Rimbaud.


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